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## Introduction: The 2018 Camp Fire
<mark>🚧 This Discovery presents work in progress and not peer-reviewed results! 🚧</mark>
Wildfires burn thousands of acres of land every year, resulting in drastic changes in land use and land cover (LULC). The burn scars left behind by these wildfires have the potential to alter local weather, climate, and hydrology. A typical example of the drastic change in LULC is the burn scar that resulted from the November 2018 Camp Fire that devastated Paradise, California.

The Camp Fire occurred from November 8 to 25, 2018, burning over 153,000 acres and causing $16.65 billion (2018 USD) in damages. The fire was initiated by a faulty transmission line maintained by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), and resulted in 85 fatalities and 17 injuries. The Camp Fire was the most expensive natural disaster in the world in 2018 and remains the seventh deadliest wildfire in U.S. history as of October 2023. Among several communities impacted by the fire, the city of Paradise was the most severely impacted, with 95% of the city burned and 18,804 of the city’s buildings destroyed.
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